42-Inch Class OLED evo C4 Series Smart TV 4K Processor Flat Screen with Magic Remote AI-Powered with Alexa Built-in (OLED42C4PUA, 2024)

Simply put, this TV does it all. You watch movies? Play games? Concerned about how various content (SDR/HDR/gaming) look and perform? The LG C4 showcases it and does it perfectly. The form factor is incredibly thin and the TV is very well engineered. The HDR highlights pop off the screen. The contrast is perfect. The onboard sound system is not optimal, but lets be real… if your getting this TV you have a soundbar/surround setup in mind already. I have the Bose 900 soundbar with sub and surrounds and it sounds so good. Gaming on the PS5 with this TV is absolutely incredible and is a delight. Many reviewers complain of a brightness diminishment in the game optimizer, but this has never bothered me. If I wanted a brighter TV, it would be solely to sear my retinas into blindness. That being said, the game optimizer menu feels like it belongs in your games and like it is a part of your gaming console. It’s just intuitive. Play Returnal, Astro Bot, Horizon, or GOW and you will be grinning from ear to ear. At $1396 for the 65” inch variant, this is a no-brainer. Perhaps reviewers will suggest the Samsung S90D with a QD-OLED panel, but I will ask… would you sacrifice slightly enhanced color vibrancy for inferior image processing? The LG Alpha 9 gen 7 processor is pretty dang incredible. My previous TV was a Sony and I must say that LG has come a LONG way with their processing. It’s on par with Sony at this point. Samsung can’t say the same and at the end of the day, it’s the image quality that counts. The LG C4 has it. The LG G4 is alluring, but we’re reaching a point of diminishing returns. If slightly amped up HDR highlights are worth an extra $900, then you lost the value to performance game. This is TV most everybody should be looking at from a value to performance standpoint. The OS is smooth, but I opted for an Apple TV interface and it has been nothing short of incredible. With Quick Media Switching, everything you connect to this TV will be buttery smooth. Everything you do on this TV will be incredibly immersive. I have no buyer’s remorse and am incredibly happy with my purchase. You get 4 HDMI 2.1 inputs at 144hz if you’re a PC gamer. You get incredible SDR, HDR, and Dolby Vision/Atmos support. You can fine-tune settings on this TV by input setting or by viewing content medium until your heart is content. You get 5 years of OS updates. Tell me what there isn’t to like. Reviewers mention that off-angle viewing has a green tint, but this is overstated and I have not encountered it with my particular panel. So, I wouldn’t worry much about what they say. Get this TV, get a nice soundbar/surround setup, and get an Apple TV 4K and you will be enthralled, I promise.

Before going too far, this TV is amazing and you can't go wrong getting it. Thats's just the first impressions since it's only been a few days. I've always kept an eye on an LG C-series, along with G and the lesser B. The C5 is now out, so C4's are dropping in price. Compared to other options, it was finally time. I missed out on what was likely a price mistake months ago where the 77" appeared for the price of the 55". The price updated before purchase could be completed. The TV is large, but not all that heavy with the very thin panel on it. I can say I was unsure how to handle during setup it since it's so large and thin. I managed to get it out of the packaging, attach the stand and set it on it's new home by myself. The stand looks like it should require one more screw, but picture instructions didn't say so. There are two holes in the bottom and three in the back to attach the upright portion that then attaches to the TV, but only 4 screws for the job, two below and two in the back, then 4 others to attach the panel to the stand. Initial setup was pretty simple, and settings can always be revisited to make any changes. The picture requires a minor amount of adjustment for my liking. I hate true motion, so that's always the first to go along with most extra processing. Reds were heavily saturated, but easy enough to correct. There's options I may never get through, but they're there. The picture settings can change automatically by detected content, so may need adjustments again for each content type. I have experienced some issue with ARC staying connected with my receiver, but that may be on my hardware, not the TV. Cutting power to everything solves it for a time, usually. It is currently my biggest annoyance, but I'm still getting acquainted with the TV. The picture, the star of the show, it's what you buy this quality TV for and it delivers. The first time the screen went black during a cut scene, I wasn't sure if the TV was still on. Those typical demo videos on screen in the store that are elusive at home are not so with this set. Watching test videos from YouTube with high resolution and frame rate looked incredible. It really lights up a room with it's brightness not even at full power. It's a centerpiece of the room for sure. I'm sure I'll revisit this review in time, but for now, I'm loving this TV and glad we finally got one. Our last new TV is 15 years old, also an LG and has always looked great. I have high hopes for this one too.

It’s big and it’s beautiful! Picture is great and sound it good.

I bought the LG C4 as replace my 4k/120hz Acer Predator 43 inch monitor that inexplicably died on me after just four years of service. The LG is better in nearly every way. You don't get displayport but do you do get HDMI 2.1 which provides more than enough bandwidth for 4k/144hz with HDR. The clarity and deep blacks on this display are spectacular (as you might imagine an OLED would be). Being a TV it has more functionality than a monitor would, you have a tuner, you have apps, you have a full function remote you have wifi and ethernet. Ten or fifteen years ago, a serious PC gamer would've never gone with a TV over a proper monitor, the input lag was too much, the TV wasn't going to able to display triple digit framerates, etc. But times have changed and now higher end TVs can match or beat some "gaming" monitors in terms of refresh rate and input lag. The only downsides to this TV are that not all adjustments are available in every mode which can make your initial setup frustrating. And while HDR performance is overall good, this display doesn't get as bright as some of the best VA or IPS panels, but you also get much deeper blacks in exchange. In terms of value for money, as a computer monitor it's not bad at all. Dedicated OLED monitors (or even IPS/VA monitors) of this size are going to cost just as much if not more. As a TV though, where prices are generally lower, the price becomes harder to justify.

I bought the smallest screen at 42" to use a gaming and work monitor. Anything bigger and I would have to move my head to see everything. The information below might still apply if you are getting a bigger screen. **** 5 stars for picture and sound which are really wonderful especially if you have not used an OLED screen before. minus * 1 star for the lackluster menu system and included soft button remote control which is slow to respond to button presses. Maybe LG app which might be better to use? Some tips if you getting an OLED / LG C-Series TV and using it as monitor: Remember it's an OLED TV, so enable all the settings in the menus to protect your beautiful TV screen from burn-in. If you are using this as a computer monitor, turn on your video card Sync and HDR in your computer's software, then enable the same settings in the menus. Also add and setup Game Optimizer to the input menu if you are playing games. If you are using Windows 11 (or 10), search for how to: auto hide your Task Bar, cycle through different desktop backgrounds and hide desktop icons to avoid burn-in. Enjoy!

I've been wanting a C series for a long time and finally got one. Mac Mini M4 Pro using a Highwings HDMI cable (ASIN B08M9HND4F). Picture quality is fantastic. Whites are white. Blacks are black. So much cleaner than my LG IPS display from 2020. Build quality appears to be great except I would have liked hex screw heads for the feet instead of the normal Phillips or JIS style. With the recent price drop I think this is a fantastic purchase. For functionality, WebOS, in my opinion is slow. Even basic settings takes a few seconds for the menu to come up. You are presented with various terms and agreements that you have to agree to. I've only agreed to two of them and so far there hasn't been any more nags. Unfortunately, I find the agreement terms to be less than desirable but I'm still keeping the tv. WebOS has your standard streaming service apps built in. Plex works well. Youtube works well. I haven't tried the other apps but I assume they function just as well. Sound quality is good. Nothing fancy. If sound is important and you won't be using headphones then grab a soundbar. HDMI audio does pass through from the Mac so that works. Bad part.. The Mac Mini M4 does not support HiDPI so those 4k resolutions are okay for graphics but text is not going to look good. I'm running it at 2560x1440 which is what I've been used to and have no is sues with blury text. I've also installed Better Display to help with quick tweaks for brightness and resolution if I want to do any quick changes. Overall I'm pretty happy with this purchase and would recommend the LG C4 and absolutely if you can find one on sale!

I went through a long process trying to decide which TV to purchase. I run a 5.1.2 Atmos home theatre through a gaming PC with a powerful graphics card and I wanted a TV suitable for high end PC gaming, UHD movies, and included eARC connections for smart home integration. The TV is very slim with a thin black bezel and a box-like protrusion in the back that houses much of the electronics. The picture is bright, clear, and handles many resolutions very well rarely if ever displaying motion blur or screen tearing. Newer 4k movies look flawless and smooth. Older lower resolutions upscale better than any other TV I've seen and greatly improve the viewability. Running all my connections like game consoles, and PC, through the eARC on my audio receiver into one eARC HDMI on the TV was easy to do and made the TV work with voice command on Alexa. The TV sometimes runs a pixel cleaning mode that is supposed to preserve the quality of the images it can display and I'm grateful for this feature. I had a friend visit shortly after I purchased this TV and he went out and bought one for himself he was so impressed. I love the sleek modern look, the quality materials, and the relatively user friendly software in this TV. The included remote has the pointer mouse feature which I also think is helpful.

I hate almost everything about this television. I got it as a splurge to replace the $100 tv we had in our living room thinking I was getting an upgrade. The sound is all over the place, I can almost never hear the dialogue on anything I’m watching. I’m constantly having to change the sound settings for every different thing I put on to try to make it a little better. Every single time I turn it on, I’m getting some alert about how it needs to power off to clean pixels for 10 minutes when the television had already been turned off for 12-30 hours straight and I’m turning it back on for the first time in a significant period of time. The various apps I use are almost always requiring updates before launching - I just don’t see how it’s possible that every app is requiring constant updates which also requires signing out and waiting for the update to re-try. The rolly button on the remote is useless and if the remote is looked at wrong the cursor pops up on the tv and won’t go away until it feels like it’s been ignored long enough. I’m so *not* glad that I thought I’d treat myself with upgrading our television. I hate using this tv, I wish I could just throw it out the window.